How “streamer” journalism both empowers and endangers civic reporters in eastern Ukraine.
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Photographer Molhem Barakat is one of the latest of dozens of journalists, reporters, photographers and videographers killed in 2013 while trying to bring the news of the Syria conflict to the world’s attention. Here’s a list by Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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This year’s Reporters Without Borders Netizen Prize was awarded to Syrian citizen journalists and activists. The Media Center of the Local Coordination Committees brings together groups of citizen journalists to collect and disseminate, in real time, information and images of Syria’s uprising.
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Launched by Reporters Without Borders in 2008, World Day Against Cyber-Censorship (on March 12, 2012) is intended to rally everyone in support of a single Internet without restrictions that is accessible to all.
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A selection of statements, views and information posted to social media outlets as the news that The Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, French photojournalist Rémy Ochlyc, and Rami al-Sayed, a Syrian citizen journalist, had been killed during shelling in the city of Homs.
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The Weekly Digest — a round-up of Sampsonia Way’s top stories — is your source for quality weekend reading.
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Turkmenistan has the world’s third most suppressed media, followed only by North Korea and Eritrea. However, the coverage of a deadly explosion marked the unprecedented emergence of citizen journalism in one of the world’s most isolated countries.
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